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14900k might be one of the least reliable CPUs in recent times, pairing it with ECC seems almost ironic!

The recent trend with Intel CPU (at least 13900K and 14900K) reliability is indeed rather worrisome.

Do you mind sharing more details for those who weren’t paying attention? I’m still on 10 years old generations with my home PCs and my laptop. And don’t feel the urge to upgrade anything yet. Hence, I’m not following the trends.

The only thing I’m considering is the upgrade of my iPad Pro and probably MacBook at some point (not sure if I need it at all). My home computer is doing just fine with 4th generation Intel CPU and I don’t see any need for upgrade in upcoming years, if not a decade.

There are significantly more errors occurring on those CPUs. I don't have much time now, but you can check details: https://www.google.com/search?q=14900K+failures

Intel stagnated for several years, allowing AMD and Apple (both using TSMC) to produce CPUs that are simultaneously faster and more power efficient than Intel's. There wasn't really anything Intel could do about the power efficiency in the short run so they went all in on performance and started selling desktop CPUs with a 6 GHz turbo that draw >250 watts. Apparently this is not great for reliability.

Perhaps… but maybe I see the ECC as an insurance policy on top of a dodgy CPU. Frankly, I set my CPU to Intel Baseline and then ran Cinebench for over an hour on the multi-core test with zero ill effects. Hopefully I’m lucky in the end.

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